BETASOM (an acronym of Bordeaux Sommergibile or Sommergibili) was a submarine base established at Bordeaux in France by the Regia Marina during the Second World War. Italian submarines used the base during the Battle of the Atlantic from 1940 to...
The Marcello class was a class of nine submarines built in 1937 and 1938 by CRDA in Trieste for the Royal Italian Navy (Italian: Regia Marina). Two similar submarines built in 1939 at La Spezia by Oto Melara are sometimes considered part of the...
The Liuzzi class was a class of four submarines built by Tosi in Taranto for the Royal Italian Navy (Italian: Regia Marina) in 1939. The submarines began their Second World War service in the Mediterranean Sea, where Liuzzi was sunk. The three...
Bordeaux ( bor-DOH; French: [bɔʁdo] ; Gascon Occitan: Bordèu [buɾˈðɛw]; Basque: Bordele) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the...
The Marconi class was a class of six submarines built for the Royal Italian Navy (Italian: Regia Marina). The submarines were all launched between 1939 and 1940, and all but one, Luigi Torelli, were lost in the Atlantic during the Second World War.
Torpedo Bay is a 1963 war film directed by Charles Frend and Bruno Vailati and starring James Mason. The story is based on events that took place at Betasom, a submarine base established at Bordeaux by the Italian Navy during World War II. The film...
Romolo Polacchini (20 May 1897 – 16 October 1968) was an Italian admiral during World War II.
The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of...
The Argo-class was a class of two coastal submarines built by Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico in Monfalcone for Portugal but operated by the Royal Italian Navy (Italian: Regia Marina) after Portugal was unable to pay construction costs. The...
The Italian submarine fleet of World War II was one of the largest in the world at the time, with 116 submarines. It saw action during the Second World War, serving mainly in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. During the conflict 88 submarines, 75%...